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A King Alone by Jean Giono, Alyson Waters, Susan Stewart
- A King Alone
- Jean Giono, Alyson Waters, Susan Stewart
- Page: 176
- Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
- ISBN: 9781681373096
- Publisher: New York Review Books
Electronics books download pdf A King Alone by Jean Giono, Alyson Waters, Susan Stewart 9781681373096
Overview
An existential detective story by one of France's most popular modern writers, set in a mid-nineteenth century mountain village, available in English for the first time A King Alone is set in a remote Alpine village that is cut off from the world by rugged mountains and by long months when the ground is covered with snow and the heavens with cloud. One such winter, villagers begin mysteriously to disappear. Soon the village is paralyzed by terror, which gives way to relief and eager anticipation when the outsider Langlois arrives to investigate. What he discovers, however, will leave no one reassured, and his reappearance in the village a few years later, now assigned the task of guarding it from wolves, awakens those troubling memories. A man of few words, a regal manner, and military efficiency, Langlois baffles and fascinates the villagers, whose different responses to him shape Jean Giono’s increasingly charged narrative. This novel about a tiny community at the dangerous edge of things and a man of law who is a man alone could be described as a metaphysical Western. It unfolds with the uncanny inevitability and disturbing intensity of a dream.
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